1 Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight … Yeah! (BMG)
2 Pulp: Different Class (Polygram)
3 James Phillips: Made in South Africa (Shifty/Tic Tic Bang)
4 Neil Young with Pearl Jam: Mirror Ball (Warner Bros)
5 Urban Creep: Sea Level (Shifty/Tic Tic Bang)
6 Boukman Eksperyans: Libte (Pran Pou Pran’l!) (Mango)
7 Gito Baloi: Ekaya (Sheer Sound)
8 The Rolling Stones: Stripped (Virgin/EMI)
9 Supergrass: I Should Coco (EMI)
10 Passengers: Original Soundtracks I (Island)
Top TEN classical Cds with SA
1 BEETHOVEN: Fidelio Deon van der Walt/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2; CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1Steven De Groote/Cape Town Symphony Orchestra (GSE Claremont)
3 FAGAN: Karoo Symphony, etcNational Symphony Orchestra/Peter Marchbank (Marco Polo)
4 HINDEMITH: Das Marienleben Gerda Hartman
5 PUCCINI: The Puccini ExperienceJohan Botha/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Edward Downes (Conifer)
6 SCHREKER: Die Gezeichtenen Elizabeth Connell/German Symphony Orchestra Berlin/Lothar Zagrosek (Decca)
7 SCHUMANN: Der Rose Pilgerfart Deon van der Walt/Danish National Radio Orchestra/Gustav Kuhn (Chandos)
8 TIPPETT: Triple ConcertoPhilip De Groote/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox (Chandos)
9 VOLANS: String Quartets Nos 4 and 5 Duke Quartet (Collins)
10 ZAIDEL-RUDOLPH: Music of the Spheres Various orchestras and conductors
(GSE Claremont)
top TEN jazz cds
1 MINGUS BIG BAND: Gunslinging Birds (Dreyfus
2 THE GATEWAY TRIO: Homecoming (ECM)
3 RON BYRON: Music for Six Musicians (Nonsuch)
4 MICHEL PETRUCIANNI: Au Theatre Des Champs- Elysees (Dreyfus Jazz)
5 ART PEPPER: The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (Contemporary)
6 STEVE TURRE: Rhythm Within (Antilles)
7 CHARLIE HUNTER: Bing, Bing, Bing!(Blue Note)
8 ROY HAYNES: Homecoming Evidence (ECD)
9 GUY BARKER: Into the Blue (Verve )
10 MARTIAL SOLAL: Improvise Pour France Musique (JMS)